Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England Governors predicted a "completely ruinous fuel oil shortage" and begged for help. Louisiana's Governor Sam Jones reported "almost universal" opposition to rationing in his State. Of Detroit's 546,000 passenger car owners, nearly all of them war workers, 166,000 neglected to register, and OPA had a choice of extending the Dec. 1 date or risking lowered war production. Some Oklahomans refused to register for gas books. Texas was maddest...
...land at El Alamein. The entire western half of the area was littered with German and Italian guns and shells, helmets, clothing, food, maps and other things, smashed and torn by the Aussies as they crashed through. All about were black, well-made "Jerry cans" (for fuel), a dozen of which we collected and filled with water when we learned that the Nazis had oiled many of the wells farther west. Old tins of British-made "Kiwi" shoe polish lay side by side with empty bottles of Chianti. Pressed into the sand was a letter to a German soldier from...
Thousands of gallons of fuel, tons of goods and ammunition, and hundreds of men are going west by air. Sometimes the sky above and beyond the supply line is black with craft roaring in both directions...
Typical is the situation with ersatz motor fuel. Most of the synthetic gasoline made from coal, plus the conquered Rumanian oil, has been invested in the Caucasus campaign for more oil. Meanwhile wartime traffic limps on carbon monoxide made in portable charcoal burners (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week a new ersatz fuel appeared in the news: liquefied methane gas in pressure tanks. This fuel is obtained by "bottling" natural gas in Italy, Hungary and Denmark, and also as a byproduct in the production of gasoline from coal. Recently Berlin Gasworks Co. prepared to extract methane from the city gas supply...
Some 700 filling stations throughout Germany now supply liquid methane to some 100,000 cars. Because methane is h'gh in antiknock value, special high-compression engines which save 15% in fuel consumption are now available for this fuel. Even diesel engines can be converted to methane, although when this is done they still must be started with regular diesel fuel...